dbus mini-summit at Desktop Summit 2011

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 10 de August de 2011 19:22:27 David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > That means glib itself cannot depend on D-Bus. Ever again.
> 
> Actually it's fine if a) you can build GLib without D-Bus support; and
> b) The D-Bus support in GLib isn't needed from D-Bus' use of GLib. The
> only difference is that it makes bootstrapping more difficult since
> you'd need to build GLib twice (see also: Linux from scratch).
> 
> (As an aside, GLib actually optionally uses libdbus-1 for test cases
> to check that the GDBus message serializer agrees with the libdbus-1.)

In both cases you may make packagers unhappy: bootstrapping requiring two 
builds and/or cyclic dependencies.

I'm ok with this, but please consult packagers.

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